The Movie Song Album

The Movie Song Album is a 1966 studio album by Tony Bennett. The album consists of songs from films, opening with the theme from The Oscar, in which Bennett had recently appeared. With this project of such high quality of song material and collaborators, he was to describe the album in his autobiography as his "all time favorite record". Johnny Mandel was the musical director, and he and Neal Hefti and Quincy Jones arranged and conducted their own compositions on the album. Luiz Bonfá played the guitar on his two songs, "Samba de Orfeu" and "The Gentle Rain". The pianists Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Rowles and Lou Levy all collaborated, each on one song. Two singles from the album, "The Shadow of Your Smile" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in the issue dated November 15, 1965, peaking at number 95 during its three-week stay. and number eight on the magazine's Easy Listening chart, during its 13-weeks there. "Maybe September", spent four weeks on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart in the issue dated February 26, 1966, peaking at number 104. and number ten on the magazine's Easy Listening chart, during its ten-weeks there. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mov...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)